The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-08

| or age apparently knew his history, for
they would stare at him and peep
I over their shoulders as he passed, in a
fashion that would startle society actor.
| AT half past or O'clock he drifted slowly
INTO Delmonico's, scanned the faces, ac-
knowiedged the surly mods of other mash
ers with short inclination of his head,
picked out his table with undertaking skill,
ana spent the next two or three hours
among the wives and daughters of other
men who were down town pursuing the
| elusive dollar. His habit is to eat slowly,
ana look, with geutle and melancholy air,
from one pair of pretty eyes to another
Ii the portraits of the handful of men who
are constant subject of talk among the
women of New York were published, they
would cause robust and decisive sort of
derlsion. The majority of them are any
| thing but Respondent or attractive If
there is professional matinee, picture
sale, an art exhibition, boat race, a crack
horse auction, dog show, horse show, or cir
| Gus going on in the afternoon, the masher is
as sure to be there as the ticket seller. At
night he dimes at tho Brunswick, Del
monico's, or the Hoffman House, but
never IN the cafe. In this way
day after day passes without the
slightest deviation. The Washers
all know each other, they frequent the same
places, they are popular with men and pur-
sued by women, and yet the occasions are
| exceedingly rare when they are called to ac-
count. They are adroit and hold their
tongues, and perhaps it is therein that their
safeguard lies. Social position apparently
has nothing to do with success, for there is
| bootmaker's clerk who stands high in the
| ranks, and there is crack gambler con-
corning whose audacity and nerve many
| anecdotes are told. A SNUG faced man
| exists whose sole capital and stock in
do lfaa l.. -
1t is cut square, and one side is light red,
while the other is deep brown, This CHASTITY
and unusual combination is sufficient to
make him eminent among his fellows.
Another man who has the reputation of hav-
ing run bigger risks and taken heavier
chances than any of the rest is downcast
and demulcent chap, with a long black
moustache sleepy eyes, and close cropped
hair His moustache drops from his lips
like Turks; His eyes are very black, and
he never smiles
There is q putty-faced youth who affects
the st. James Hotel, and who has appar
emily not the faintest claim to any outward
beauty but he is said to have caused more
anguish in family circles of New York than
any man of his size in town. He is as in
conspicuous as all the others
He went about with such sorrowful face
all last week that the impression got abroad
friend approached him as he stood staring
morosely at his boots, and said:
What makes you SO ghoulishly glumw
Misfortune"
Every badg'
"Orful."
"Whadist?'
doctor says l mus limit m'self It half
pint absinthe day or drop sudd'nly dead"
I'D drop dead if drank half pint in a
month"
Without doubt the most astounding sue
cess in this whole group of Washers, and q
man to whom all the others now in town
are tyros, is a slim and pallid-faced little
man OF perhaps 40 years, who is usually
clad in a frock coat and an air of gloom
but who is recorded as a terror and
a flaming menace everywhere. He
has the nerve of a road agent and wit
that has almost made him famous 1t /:
of the peculiarly sharp and quaint order OF
humor that makes women laugh, and he
has joked his way out of dozen appalling
scrapes.
The Washers flourish They spend theil
lives breaking up the homes and running the
happiness of men who have the manliness
and decency to let the property of other.
alone, but they are seldom called to account
1t is aeurious phase of New York life
that has brought out and matured this
sedate, Unconditional, quietly clad, and sinu
GUS gang